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charades

/ (ʃəˈrɑːdz) /
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noun
(functioning as singular) a parlour game in which one team acts out each syllable of a word, the other team having to guess the word
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Word Origin for charades

C18: from French charade entertainment, from Provençal charrado chat, from charra chatter, of imitative origin
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